Red Badge Of Courage And Camouflaging The Chimera Essay

War is always a way for men to get what they want or in most cases to settle a disagreement they have with each other. War is never a good thing because many innocent people die at war, they have their own lives and are dragged into fight for something they were originally not a part of. In some cases, however, men are more than glad to go into war and fight for anything, some treat it as an honorable thing to do, while others do it for their pride. The poems Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane and Camouflaging the Chimera by Yusef Komunyakaa are an example of the different points of view of two men who think differently about war. In the poem Red Badge of Courage (Crane), the main point of view belongs to “the Youth” which a young man called Henry Fleming. He is not the one narrating the story but is the character used to experience the story. It tells of how the men go through a some obstacles and in the end they end up dead or with an injury. “Red Badge” means that you did something courageous, and getting one is the wish of many of the young soldiers. However, Henry is one that does not end up with a wound with the meaning he wants it to be, …show more content…
In this poem, it is written in no one’s point of view but instead just a narrator. Written in the setting of the Vietnam war, the soldiers are fighting in the deep forest of Vietnam. They try to camouflage in the thick forest by painting their faces and guns with mud, stuff their pockets with grass and tie branches to their helmets. They blend into their surroundings just like the chameleon does with its. No one can tell them apart from the forest, the small animals are resting on them and “Chameleons crawled our spines, changing from day to night: green to gold, gold to black” (18-20 Komunyakaa), the only thing that is blowing their cover are the apes that live in that